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Not A Bana Year For Hulk

By Garth Franklin Wednesday July 5th 2006 08:58AM

A report on Cinescape talks about some of the larger parameters of the upcoming sequel/redux of Marvel's "Hulk" - "Universal isn't really doing it. It's going to be done through Marvel (independently, or close too) and it's called "Incredible Hulk". Bana is definitely not doing it - his contract was with Universal, and so on - so they're going to get a new Hulk. They're not going to be auditioning, but merely 'going out' to names". The report adds the likes of Dominic Purcell, Brendan Fraser and Adam Garcia are being considered.

Meanwhile, "X3" scribe Zak Penn told The X Verse that some of the ideas for the new film will be lifted from a draft he did in 1996 - "It's not like we're just going back to it. Just keeping some ideas and sequences and the James Cameron inspired tone that I was shooting. I thought the tone of the TV series was perfect, and something the first movie could have used. I really wanted to see Bruce on the run, keeping his secret from people, constantly afraid of transforming. You will see all that in Hulk 2, and no poodles".

He expects the Hulk himself will be "a combination of prosthetics, animatronics, and CG" and confirmed "this will NOT be straight to DVD, or even a cheap movie. Marvel is dropping a lot of money on this and I think it has a chance to be better than the first or I wouldn't be involved".

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